the camera shake is a bit excessive and the video has no real meaning (strange random cuts to slow-mo?).
but i like the color grading in the first shot and the fact that the camera seems so fluid.

you do eventually learn. it takes a while though.
i think the best way to learn is to analyse films and see how they move the camera since most videos these days are music videos.
learn to use fraps and possibly an editing program.

You should make it more like an action film eg. fast cuts, more fitting music, frame filled with the car (assuming you were going for that). Most of your film was in slow motion which doesn't really give a sense of speed and removes the excitement of a police chase.
The camera shake is a little buggy in places and sometimes too much. The film is in slow motion so you should slow down the camera shake too.
You should color grade with a little bit less contrast or decrease the brightness since it hurts your eyes if it's too contrasty.
So to sum up...

Do faster cuts
Don't film in slow motion (for action scenes)
A bit less contrast
Change Music

i seriously don't see how any of today's music is any good. i'm finding it hard to find new songs that fit my taste of alternative rock.

Quote from anttt69 :

No, Earth is currently orbiting its star.

Im kind of from the radiohead era. Do you like Bush, Smashing Pumpkins, Muse?

Muse's older albums were good. takes some time getting used to their newer prog rock. I think i'll explore more of smashing pumpkins soon. Haven't heard of bush.

Quote from RasmusL :

Global warming doesn't even exist, yeah.. Pretty sure anthropogenic climate change is real though. The difference mostly exists in that we aren't sure that we're actually causing a warmer climate. It's just changing because of us.

I stopped thinking about the consequences of global warming a year ago. Don't really care about it too much right now. My geo teacher thinks that we're going to see a huge war between india and china because of the Himalayan glacier melt.

Quote from Cornys :

2. Disease (This is always at the same possibility rate and has lessened recently due to medical advances in the last 100 years)

You mean the day when antibiotics don't work and we'll suddenly have a disease like HIV which spreads through the air like smallpox?
And thanks for not looking at my profile page. I'm 14.

Last edited by ethan520, Sat, 8 Jan 2011 06:49.

That would be strange if that was literal.

Anyway, global warming, loss of fish supplies, AIDS, deforestation, overpopulation - you hear about it all the time but nothing's really happening. Countries are talking about reducing CO2 rates by 5% by some year. That won't stop global warming. Overpopulation goes with loss of fish supplies. There is no real moral way to control it is there. You could go with the one child policy which has made a few spoilt generations or start a war which is a ridiculous way to make millions of people die until someone says, alright. Stop there. You've done enough. I could go on.

There are also more social aspects that are changing. For one, people are decreasing contact with other people. People are also starting to get larger waistlines. The next generations might be blobs.

Content creators are starting to catch on to hypes. In the film industry, a large number of films are being shown in digital. Why? If you do real 3D, you need 2 cameras which means twice the workflow and data (except for audio) which creates a lot of time and money spent that could have been used to create a better story. The music industry I think, was better in the 90s maybe even up to 2007. The songs now are just horrible autotuned crap with no suggestive lyrics, simple melodies and are just boring. Who wants to listen to the same 4 chords in every song? I just hope there is a replacement for Radiohead.

What do you guys think?

no one wants to do so much rotoscoping for such a minor effect.

i saw S2 tracks. *flame*

but anyway. :iagree: with squidhead. it's a good idea implemented poorly.

offtopic
@dadge - your display picture syncs perfectly to Radiohead - Nude.

Quote from hazaky :

Yeah, something like that.

I wish lfs had such effects and specially the thing when u crash, then ur just totaled and cant race anymore. Would add such a realism.

I thought you said "then ur just toileted and can't race anymore"

Quote from zeugnimod :

Damn, children should be banned from posting on forums.

Grow up. :rolleyes:

Morning.

download link up.

I've done two versions of an intro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ROk4BRj3Uk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgp_QON9AEg

Could you guys choose:

a.Which audio track you prefer
b.Which video track you prefer
since the video and the audio tracks for both of them are different.

At first I thought you would've taken about 2-3 hours per shot doing rotoscoping on the things you wanted to be blurred.
Then I saw blurring where there shouldn't have been blurring.
I'm guessing you used the not so time wasting option

Anyway nice video.
Some key points:
+Fake DOF!
+Film burn transition
+Mostly synced to the song
+Slight bit of Chromatic Abberation for the blurring (makes it pop out a bit somehow) and some parts
+You only bumped up the contrast of LFS (unlike some drifting videos)

The third last and second last shots were amazing with all of the DOF. It looked like you used an F/1 lens (if you know what I mean...)

The Anamorphic lens flares were a bit bad and a bit good. I mean... sometimes they're quite nice and others they just ruin it. I personally like to mask out parts of it so that they only stay near the headlamps of cars.

Anyway i'd say 9/10.

It's time for you to learn tracking, rotoscoping and masking using luminance (makes hiding lens flares as they move behind cars easy... saves loads and loads of time).
All that can give you fake dof, realistic lens flares, silhouettes, signs that track an object, set extentions, 3d composites, camera projection.

If you have After Effects, all of this can be learnt from:
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/
http://library.creativecow.net/tutorials/adobeaftereffects

I swear once you learn this stuff you'll never look back.

I'm still waiting for squidhead to give me some criticisms.

ahahahahah you sound like someone's parents.

i think the only reason why not many demo players make videos is because they don't want to make the effort to learn about videography.

even though they're mostly older than me.
yes my birthday on my profile is right.

Paranoid android

looks like you died in modern warfare.

Live For Speed with Need For Speed graphics and music. That's basically it. Although that doesn't mean that it's gonna be some sloppily put together video is it?

Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y09_e9Dj00E

High Quality:
http://www.mediafire.com/?otz3odzigjy
1280x720 143mb

Screenshots:

Last edited by ethan520, Fri, 9 Jul 2010 06:13.

you almost nailed the vignette that's for sure.

Last edited by ethan520, Mon, 5 Jul 2010 22:57.

Quote from e2mustang :

canon hg20 1080p 60gb hdd and etc.. picking up tomorrow hopefully

Wouldn't it be better to get a dslr with video?

well. i can safely say the videos are worse than 2 years ago.

got to love the quality of a prime lens and its creamy dof.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

99% of macro lenses also work just fine for regular shooting. Now whether it's a long-enough lens is another issue, but they make superzooms for dSLRs as well (18-250mm, 50-500mm, etc) if that's your real concern. P&S cameras do have the go-anywhere/do-anything aspect to them, and that's great, but the problem is that they do none of it as well as dSLRs.

you could also get a prime lens and use it in reverse although there's no focusing or manual aperture. (well unless you use the DOF preview button...)